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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Plainville in Kansas


Earthquake location 39.3003S, -99.452WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Plainville in Kansas on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -99.452 West, latitude 39.3003 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003jt2. Unique identifier: us70003jt2. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/05/19 / 2019-05-11 14:06:47 / May 11, 2019 @ 2:06 pm UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:06:47 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Hays (c. 20 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hays. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km WNW of Plainville, Kansas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.452° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3003° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WNW of Plainville, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-11 14:06:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-11 20:17:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 138 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.534 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70003jt2 Id of event.
Event Code 70003jt2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003jt2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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